The Selfish Altruist: Relief Work in Famine and WarEarthscan, 2013 - 241 من الصفحات Provides an analysis of some of the most traumatic situations involving famine and war of the last two decades, helping us to understand what it takes to be an aid worker and how important humanitarian action is today. Famine and war evoke strong emotional reactions, and for most people there is a limited amount they can do. But the relief worker has to convert emotional responses into practical action and difficult choices - whom to help and how. Their own feelings have to motivate action for others. But can they separate out their own selfish feelings and prejudices in such an emotive climat. |
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... political economy - of humanitarian intervention among donors ( and this includes the general public ) . That , to my mind , is one of the chief contributions of this book . The book can also be read as a useful rejoinder to extremist ...
... political economy - of humanitarian intervention among donors ( and this includes the general public ) . That , to my mind , is one of the chief contributions of this book . The book can also be read as a useful rejoinder to extremist ...
الصفحة 2
... political context . To do justice to our con- cern we have to know everything , and because we cannot do this , altruism is an aspiration , not a fact . The book also looks at the issues in a linear or historical perspec- tive . It is ...
... political context . To do justice to our con- cern we have to know everything , and because we cannot do this , altruism is an aspiration , not a fact . The book also looks at the issues in a linear or historical perspec- tive . It is ...
الصفحة 4
... political problem . Through a series of Geneva conventions and other agreements , the practice of war has just kept ahead of public acceptability . The process was based on making a distinction between combat- ants and non - combatants ...
... political problem . Through a series of Geneva conventions and other agreements , the practice of war has just kept ahead of public acceptability . The process was based on making a distinction between combat- ants and non - combatants ...
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... political muscle , it has become increasingly important to decide what is fundamental and what is peripheral . Or to ... political action . The new world order in which governments now operate may be better at exerting greater political ...
... political muscle , it has become increasingly important to decide what is fundamental and what is peripheral . Or to ... political action . The new world order in which governments now operate may be better at exerting greater political ...
الصفحة 6
... political issues and the personal interests of politicians that I felt the meaning of the word desperately needed to be clarified . If voluntary agencies are to hand over the torch of leadership to governments , let us at least take ...
... political issues and the personal interests of politicians that I felt the meaning of the word desperately needed to be clarified . If voluntary agencies are to hand over the torch of leadership to governments , let us at least take ...
المحتوى
Kosovo The Loss of Impartiality | 19 |
Ethiopia A Golden Age of Humanitarianism? | 45 |
Sudan Impartiality and Selfrespect | 71 |
Mozambique Vulnerability and Power | 95 |
Afghanistan Pride and Principle | 117 |
Somalia Emotion and Order | 139 |
Azerbaijan and Bosnia Responsibility and Rights | 161 |
The Rwanda Genocide Mans Inhumanity | 185 |
The Selfish Altruist | 203 |
Notes on the Sources | 215 |
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الصفحة 18 - a person is a person through other people'. It is not 'I think therefore I am'. It says rather: 'I am human because I belong.' I participate, I share. A person with ubuntu is open and available to others, affirming of others, does not feel threatened that others are able and good; for he or she has a proper self-assurance that comes from knowing that he or she belongs in a greater whole and is diminished when others are humiliated or diminished, when others are tortured or oppressed, or treated as...